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  • Free MacBook Pro

    I’ve had my free MacBook Pro for about a week now and wanted to post here about it. If it wasn’t for the guys on shacknews pointing to the Josh Clark blog and his great resource I wouldn’t have attempted it. However, it has come to the attention of everyone that the deal is now dead as NuiTech caught on to everyone scamming their scam and getting a “prize”.

    My MacBook Pro

  • Missing Friend

    One of my friends who attends Western Kentucky University has been missing for the last five days. Anyone who might have any information please contact the Bowling Green Police Department or you can send it to me and I will forward it to the family.

    UPDATE: She’s been located and is ok.

  • Shacker Website Pimpage

    Do you want live lobsters? How about never leaving your house or picking up a phone? Well, then you can Buy Live Lobster on-line! You still have to boil the water however.

  • TSM321: Murray State University – My Grade: D

    Ok, I normally wouldn’t do this, but I want to make sure no other student at Murray State University has to suffer the wrath of a horrible Wireless Communications professor, Abdul Yarali.

    I was very outspoken about the difficult time I was having in this course. The biggest reason I was having a difficult time is the professor was not clear on assignments, communicated poorly, and ran a very disorganized and unstructured class. All of my other on-line classes have given a schedule up-front that allowed you to know what was due when. A must for an on-line class because on-line classes fill the void for non-traditional students who have full-time jobs or other responsibilities that keep them from attending traditional on-the-ground classes.

    Mr. Yarali did not understand this. He ran the on-line class exactly like a on-the-ground class. He gave pop quizes that lasted online for only 24 hours. If you didn’t login, you missed it. He scheduled tests for specific 4 to 5 hour windows, which again if you had work or anything else you had to reschedule your life because the most notice we were given with one of these tests was approximately a week.

    He banned the use of the on-line discussion board. He never used the on-line gradebook or even emailed you grades of your assignments. This makes calculating your grade on your own impossible, and also makes checking his final grade submission impossible as well.

    His written English skills were poor. I feel any professor giving an on-line course where clearly written directions are critical should at least have some proficiency in the English language.

    If you are taking the on-line TSM degree at Murray State University, please for your own sanity avoid this professor. I’m not even sure I would take this professor for a regular class.

  • 8-year old take on Bill O’Reilly

    Even though this video is an advertisement for a band, that does not negate the fact it raises some good points.

  • P.O.S. is ruining my life

    I never really liked P.O.S. that much when I first heard him. I actually liked him more with Doomtree more than solo. That has all changed with his latest album, and most importantly this song.

  • PS3 Backwards Compatability

    Is the PS3’s rendering of PS2 and PS1 games intentionally broken or just poorly implemented? You be the judge. This wouldn’t be such a big deal, but the PS3 contains PS2 chips inside to make all of the games compatible, so why are they being rendered so poorly? Also, lets not overlook the fact that the colors of the PS3 display look horribly washed out. Anyone else feel the whole system was a rush job?

  • Get Things Done Wallpaper

    It’s obvious I like desktop wallpapers so here is one I didn’t create. It’s called Get Things Done and it turns your desktop into a workflow organizer. Very neat.

  • So it seems…

    Apparently digg picked up my Playstation 3 article on the frontpage today. This didn’t make the server at Dreamhost happy. WordPress was bringing that server down, along with my other site, helpmewithmygameproblems.com. I got a nice email from Dreamhost support telling me why they disabled it, not because digg was causing too many requests or killing my bandwidth. No, it’s because WordPress was hogging all the CPU time generating the same page over and over. They told me how to enable WP-Cache, which I did and the site appears to be running much smoother now.

    TL;DR (That’s Too Long; Didn’t Read for you non-Shackers) Make sure to have WP-Cache enabled if you run a WordPress blog for the off-chance you get dugg or Slashdotted.

  • Wallpapers

    I moved some things around in the wallpapers sections. All of the celebs (read: babes) are now together. The misc car and cartoon wallpapers are now located in the /wallpapers directory, while the celebs reside in /wallpapers/celebs.

    I also added a new image of Rachel Bilson.